Patient Care Technician

Job Title

Position Summary: Provide basic patient care to include tube insertion, wound care, and phlebotomy. Assist in planning, organizing, implementing, and evaluating the activities occurring in the nursing station by performing clerical and receptionist duties and maintaining the physical environment of the area. Ensure adherence to hospitals and departmental policies and procedures. Patient care assignment may include Neonate, Pediatric, Adolescent, Adult, and Geriatric age groups.

Detailed Responsibilities:

• Patient Observation: Observe patient to ensure their safety and well-being, report observations to Charge Nurse or appropriate designee
• Patient Care: Provide basic patient care, take and record vital signs to include temperature, pulse, respiration, weight, height, blood pressure, and intake-output measurements
• Patient Care: Assist with activities of daily living (ADL): meals, ambulation, hygiene, linen change, and toileting as instructed
• Patient Care: Maintain therapeutic plan of care and minute to minute care of patient who is at extreme risk to self or others
• Patient Care: Complete documentation as required on the Electronic Medical Record
• Patient Care: Complete specific skills listed in the "University of New Mexico Unlicensed Assistive Personnel Specific Functions" Matrix
• Development: Enhance professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, reading current literature, attending in-services meetings, and workshops
• Patient Safety 1: Follow patient safety-related policies, procedures, and protocols
• Patient Safety 2: Demonstrate proactive approach to patient safety by seeking opportunities to improve patient safety through questioning of current policies and processes
• Patient Safety 3: Identify and report/correct environmental conditions and/or situations that may put a patient at undue risk
• Patient Safety 4: Report potential or actual patient safety concerns, medical errors, and/or near misses in a timely manner
• Patient Safety 5: Encourage patients to actively participate in their own care by asking questions and reporting treatment or situations that they don't understand or may "not seem right"
• Patient Centered Med: Adhere to and promote the core expectations of the Patient Centered Medical Home or Patient Centered Specialty Practice as applicable

Qualifications:

Education: Essential: High School or GED Equivalent

Training/Education Specialization: Essential: MA or PCT or CNA or DD214 or 2 sem nurs schl or UNMH Tech

Experience: Essential: 1 year directly related experience

Nonessential: Bilingual English/Keres Tewa Tiwa Towa Zuni or Navajo

Credentials: Essential: CPR for Healthcare/BLS Prov or Prof Rescuers w/in 30 days

Nonessential: Medical Terminology course w/in six months of position

Physical Conditions: Heavy Work: Exerting 50 to 100 pounds of force occasionally and/or 25 to 50 pounds of force frequently and/or 10 to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects or people. Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for Medium Work.

Working Conditions: Essential: Sig Hazard: Chemicals Bio Hazardous Materials req PPE Limited access to med room. Med Admin Policy Att A Tuberculosis testing is completed upon hire and additionally as required